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And the dying welfare state brought its own newspeak as well: governments’ failure to link child benefit, unemployment pay and so on to the cost of living was the fight against inflation; putting children on half-time schooling was referred to as giving parents a free hand; closing hospitals and dumping dying patients on the doorsteps of unwarned and distant relatives was community care; and a new political movement that saw remedies to the whole predicament, if only the nation’s women would buckle down to traditional role and biological destiny, was known quite simply as FAMILY.
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Fairbairns, Z. (1985). The Wrong Rats. In: Ungerson, C. (eds) Women and Social Policy. Women in Society. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17956-5_4
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